months from the date thereof as shall be therein,, for that purpose expressed. Laws of original Province to be in force in new Province. IV. All laws in force within any Province of which any new Province established under this Act may have formed a part, shall subject to the provisions of this Act and to the alteration or repeal of such laws by the Provincial Legislature of such new Province, continue in force within such new Province, so far as the same are applicable : Provided always that until such alteration or repeal all powers by any such laws vested in the Superintendent of such original Province, either solely, or with the advice or the advice and consent of the Executive Council of such original Province, shall, within such new Province, become vested in the Superintendent thereof. Number of Members of Provincial Councils. V. The Provincial Council of every Province established under this Act shall in the first instance, consist of such number of Members, not less than Nine, as the Governor shall by proclamation direct and appoint. Governor to appoint Electoral Districts, fyc. VI. It shall be lawful for the Governor, by Proclamation, to constitute within every Province established under this Act, convenient Electoral Districts for the election of Members of the Provincial Council, and to appoint and declare the number of Members to be elected for each such District for the Provincial Council ; and to mate provision for the formation of the first Electoral Rolls for the Election of such members ; and in determining the number and extent of such Electoral Districts, and the number of Members to be elected for each Distiict, regard shall be had to the number of Electors within the same, so that the number of Members to be assigned to any one District may bear to the whole number of the Members of the said Council, as nearly as may be, the same proportion as the number of Electors within such District shall bear to the whole number of Electors within the limits of the Province. Provision in respect of Electoral Districts of original Province wholly or partially comprised in new Province. VII. Where any Province established under this Act shall comprise the whole of any Electoral District returning a Member or Members to the Provincial Council of the Province of which such new Province may have formed a part, the sitting member or members for such District shali forthwith cease to sit in the Provincial Council of such original Province, and such District shall cease to return any member to such Pro\incial Council. And where any Province so established shali comprise a part only of any such Electoral District, the seat or seats of the sitting member or members for such District shall become vacant, and the remainder of such Electoral Distiict shall become a complete Electoral District in lieu of the original Electoral District, and shall return the same number of members ; and the Governor shall cause a new Electoral Roll to be made out for the same, and shall cause to be placed thereon the names of all such registered Electors of the original Electoral District as shall possess a qualification within the new Electoral District, and an election of a member or members (as the case may require) to sit for such new Electoral District in the Provincial Council of the original Province shall be held with all convenient speed : Provided that nothing in this Act contained shall prevent the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the original Province from altering the boundaries of such new Electoral District or the number of members to be returned by it to the Piovincial Council. When first Writs to issue. VIII. The Governor shall cause the first Writs for the election of Members of the Provincial Council of every Province to be established un^er this Act, to be issued at some time not later than six months next after the publication of the Order in Council establishing such Province. Election of Superintendents. IX. The Superintendents of Provinces established under this Act, shall be elected as hereinafter provided. . Provincial ■. Council to elect Superintendent. K. Within one month after the election of the firsthand every successive Provincial Council of any Province established tinder this Act, the Council shall meet at a convenient time and place to be appointed - for
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 1, Issue 52, 18 September 1858, Page 6
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724Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 1, Issue 52, 18 September 1858, Page 6
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